He ended his speech by telling the court that Mr Richards was "entitled to be found not guilty".
Solicitors for Mr Ferguson appeared at Grantham Magistrates Court on his behalf on Wednesday and indicated he would be pleading not guilty.
Reports today say that a 33-year-old Kentucky man will argue in his murder trial this week that he should be found not guilty of killing his wife because he was under the influence of caffeine at the time.
For example, and this is purely 100% hypothetical for purposes of illustration, if a shooter is hallucinating messages from God telling him that someone is a soldier of Satan and he needs to save the world by engaging them in a Holy War, then he might properly be judged not guilty by reason of insanity.
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And given that doubt over the precise series of events, the judge said the only verdict could be one of not guilty.
So, why should Americans care about a Spanish judge targeting a couple of Russians who may or may not be guilty of any wrongdoing?
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Mr al-Fawwaz's lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said a diplomatic cable existed which reportedly said the US was considering "de-listing of Mr Fawwaz" from a UN "terror list", and there was "evidence in the possession of M15 and MI6 that suggests that the claimant could not be guilty as alleged".
The suspected would-be letter bomber pleaded not guilty to firearms charges and putting lives at risk when he appeared in court on 11 September.
The report said Blagojevich did not need to be found guilty of a crime for the House to impeach him.
Old Bailey judge Mr Justice Mackay ordered that a verdict of not guilty should be entered on a charge of corporate manslaughter.
The Illinois committee's report points out that Blagojevich does not need to be found guilty of a crime for the House to impeach him.
Earlier Judge Burr explained to the jury that eight of the charges were being withdrawn and they would in time be directed to return a verdict of not guilty on each.
To be sure, Republicans are not the only ones guilty of the politics of pander.
The full truth about the missing Americans, however, will not be discovered so long as those with guilty knowledge continue to run Vietnam.
"If he is found not guilty, he will still be inside because of the first trial, " says Lim Kit Siang, chairman of the opposition Democratic Action Party.
Mr Justice Sweeney said a not guilty verdict would require them to be sure she had no choice but to do as her husband ordered and that he was present at the time she signed the paperwork as she said he was.
It absolutely can be a problem in their brain and they should not feel guilty.
If a new permanent international criminal court is set up in the next few years, as many including this newspaper hope, it too will be able to punish the guilty only with prison, not with death.
"If the identification by Miss Lockwood is, or may be, a mistake, that would mean Mr Cowan is not guilty, " he said.
If she is found not guilty the second time around, Yates will be sent to a psychiatric hospital for an undetermined period of time.
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If found not guilty by reason of insanity, she will be sent to a state psychiatric hospital and her case will be regularly reviewed.
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Another man said to be linked to Zazi, taxi driver Zarein Ahmedzay, has pleaded not guilty to lying to a federal agent, according to his attorney, Michael Marinaccio.
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In its ruling on Wednesday, the California appeal court reluctantly decided that Morales was not guilty of rape, because he was pretending to be the woman's boyfriend and not her husband.
The Foreign Office so fears the possible fallout from the current murder trial of two British nurses in Saudi Arabia (if found guilty they could be publicly beheaded) that it will not make any statement on executions of British citizens by a foreign state.
Germany allowed the extradition after receiving assurances the pair would be tried in a civilian court and not face a capital sentence if found guilty.
If the plain language of these codes were followed, they would not last a day, since every professor and student would be found guilty of violating them.
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Mr Mubarak and his two sons, Gamal and Alaa, will also be re-tried for corruption charges, of which they were found not guilty the first time round.
Most controver sially, Labour would abolish the legal doctrine of doli incapax, which presumes, unless it is proven otherwise, that a child below the age of 14 does not know the difference between right and wrong and so cannot be found guilty of a crime.
This holds that, unless proven otherwise, children below the age of 14 do not know the difference between right and wrong, and so cannot be found guilty of a crime.
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